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December 5, 2015

Ten years ago, on a December 3rd, I published an audio track on a Myspace page under the name "Between The Zones" for the first time. Happy birthday BTZ!

While I am still working on the next album, I found the original audio projects of the first-ever BTZ songs, which had formerly been grouped on the compilation "Enter Slack" back in the day, just before we start working on the "Rough" EP.
Because BTZ turned 10 years, and because some of you have been asking for it in recent months, I have decided to put back online these archaic songs, with the addition of previously unreleased demos from the same time period (2005-2007).
I managed to re-export everything from the audio software in wav (which was not the case at the time!) without saturation, so the quality is far better than before.

Also, Michaelcthulhu made an amazing life-size replica of the Soul Reaver sword, from the Legacy of Kain game series, and we're really happy to have the classic "Ozar Midrashim" cover featured in his video! Feel free to share!

Please enjoy and stay tuned for more news about "Troubles" soon. Take care

I will record it with the almighty Philippe K. in his newly built home studio.

Philippe is a talented musician, currently playing in the indie-punk quartet Valley —feel free to listen to their music here— but also in Monica Crystal (noise rock), and his own solo project Terre Profane (more ambient/industrial-oriented... If you're still visiting our page, you should definitely have a listen to Terre Profane!). Back in the day, he was also playing guitar in cool post-rock band Lost in Kiev.

These vocal sessions should be pretty intense... I just wish I won't get a cold before recording, hehehe!
Take care and see you soon!

July 30, 2015

I was talking about the next BTZ album in my last post. (The real second album, not the remix album, right?) Well, last week I spent 2 days back in Montpellier to work on some new songs with Lühje (who is also in charge of SHIFTED's mastering) and my friend April from Finland- they are providing vocals for some of the songs on the album! We had great fun recording, even if there was some SERIOUS heat waves in southern France at the time.
Here are some photos of these.. "sweating" sessions- please excuse the lousy image quality, it was SO hot in Montpellier, and my cellphone was dying too.

Dealing with the album itself, writing is actually almost over. Some parts are missing here and there, but the overall sound and ambient is already well settled. I'm currently looking for fun and interesting ways to share the project progress with you, so stay tuned ;)See you soon, take care!

July 15, 2015

Just to let you know. Our remix album SHIFTED is being mastered right now by Lühje (Primate Audio / Stolearm) and will be released very soon. Honestly our fellow remixers did an amazing job in "breaking" the songs - the whole album is very dense and diversified, and I just can't wait to share it with you!

Meanwhile, the proper 2nd BTZ album is in the works. Some clues about how it will sound: back to the industrial roots, lots of digital-delayed guitars, violence, ultra melodism, beautiful guests, more violence, and even some screams in French. LOL

May 6, 2015

Between The Zones and Délivrances are pleased to announce the upcoming release of SHIFTED, a "distorted" version of the SHIFTINGS album released in 2013.

SHIFTED will gather unreleased tracks and alternative versions of songs from SHIFTINGS: raw demos, instrumentals, and remixes made by fellow artists and bands met by BTZ - Stolearm, TÖT, Red City Noise, Cylenth, Decrease, Ainamaty, RedkiS, Londead, etc - a way to start celebrating 10 years of Between The Zones, a musical journey still animated by the will of bonding together different sound universes.

Conceived as an apostrophe until the release of Between The Zones' sophomore album in 2016, Shifted is planned for late summer 2015.

BTZ in a nutshell

Between The Zones is a shape-shifting rock and metal project, founded in late 2005 in Montpellier (southern France).After composing and playing live as a five-piece band in the Montpellier area between 2008 and 2013, BTZ became a studio entity and created its own netlabel, Délivrances. The project is partially relocated in Warsaw (Poland) since 2016.

BTZ is part of the Délivrances independent art collective and netlabel.